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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 3:08 AM EDT for Berrien County, Cass County, Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1996, 3:08 AM EDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berrien County, MI, Cass County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRR 100716 COR FFWGRR MIC021-027-101215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 308 AM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BERRIEN AND CASS COUNTIES THE FLOOD WARNING FOR BOTH CENTRAL AND SOUTH BERRIEN AND CASS COUNTIES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 800 AM EDT. STATE POLICE IN NEW BUFFALO AND NILES REPORT 1 1/2 TO 2 FEET OF WATER ACROSS SAYWER ROAD IN SAWYER... IN ADDITION... THE LEFT EAST BOUND LANE ON INTERSTATE 94 AT EAST ROAD BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 7 AND 8 WAS UNDER 8 TO 10 INCHES OF WATER. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF BASEMENT FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN THE BUCHANAN... SAWYER AND GALIEN AREAS PLUS WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS ROADS IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. WATER WAS REPORTED RUSHING OUT OF PLOWED FIELDS ONTO BAKERTOWN ROAD OFF US 12. SOME VILLAGE STREETS IN CASSOPOLIS HAVE FLOODED... MAINLY IN LOW LYING AREAS. AT 255 AM EDT... DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A BAND OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THIS AREA EXTENDING WEST ACROSS NORTHERN ILLINOIS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND AN INCH ARE POSSI ETHROUGH MID MORNING. RADAR INDICATES THIS BAND IS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTH. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY... AND YOU SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. COR TO EXP TIME DCZ &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Berrien | 42 min |
| May 10, 12:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Berrien, Cass | 3 hr |
| May 10, 8:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Berrien, Cass | 7 hr |
| May 10, 2:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Berrien, Cass | 6 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.